The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1932, Page 4

\ ‘ Page Four 28th St, New York City, N.Y. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Ce, inc, daily except Sunday, at 60 Hast Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK.” Address and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 50 Bast 18th Street, New York, N. ¥. Dail Yorker: Porty US.A. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Foreign: one year. By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3; two months, $1; excepting Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. $3; siz monthe $4.50, WHY ARE NOT THE MURDERERS OF! “PEACEFUL AIMS” PRESIDENT DOUMER. ARRESTED? The Daily Worker publishes herewith the leading article of the Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Government, published on May 23, |French = investigation” in the fatter of the | as m of the French President, Dou- | mer, has be g on now for over two weeks with u nergy.” The French papers are full of s concerning the statements made by Gorguloff end various witnesses, concernin, the res of the. inquiries of the French police mi Czechoslo Poland and Rumania. The yolice and houlevard Pres: sent its 1 tives out into a regularly thi h. And 3 et which Bolshevik agent” began loff was Gorguloff ard Gorguloff, a power, was pe westigation was “2, Solotarev, e ments of these However, when the weav the fabric te: which were to prove that C reality Solotar were missing—for a characteristic sear on the hand. The statements made by Gorguloff in the presence of the Cossack, Colonel Yeliseyev, ac- cording to which he had been a doctor's as- sistant end later on a doctor, proved to be cor- rect. In the end the investigators were com- pelled to admit that Gorguloff was Gorguloff and no other. However, even granting this point, Gorgu- Kerensky loff might be a camouflaged Red. The investi- gation, therefore, sei itself to inquire into Gor- guloff’s past. Gorguloff has been known in the White- Guardist emigration since 1921, but all ‘the efforts of the investigators did not succeed in discovering the least trace of any relations be- tween this™ arch-White and the Communists. This new failure then compelled the investi- gation to put forward another theory, namely, that the murder of President Doumer was the act of 2 madman. The police immediately be- gan to inquire whether Gorguloff had spent the night before the murder in the company of a prectitute, whether he had drunk stiff doses of Heraessey or Martell’s brandy before the mur- der, @nd, finally, in order to give their new suggestion some trace of scientific credibility they ordcey a medical examination of Gorguloff’s blood. Should it wow transpire that Gorguloff was ;8yphilitic then naturally that will be taken as proof that he is insane. However, if all those emjgrants who occa- sionally spend the night with a prostitute, drink stiff doses of Hennessey or Martell, and react positively to a Wassermann test, are to be certified as,insane, then the Iunatic asylums of Europe would not be able to hold them all. But the French police must declare Gorguloff | | | Guard Plans to Assassinate Diplomats as Signal for War Against the Soviet Union to be insane, and Gorguloff, when he realized that a confirmation of this theory might save 1im from a great deal of unpleasantness, im- rvediately began to. suffer from “hallucinations.” At one time the devil had driven him to com- luut Kes crime, ang at another time it was God himself. . HE whole farce of this “investigation” would be laughable if # were not for the fact that it represents a direct support for the organiza- tions of political murderers who are doing their utmost to provoke war. French public opinion must itself decide whether it is prepared to tolerate such an attempt to hide the traces of the organization which was behind the assas- sination of the President of the French Republic. The French government must decide whether it is prepared to tolerate its police witch-doctors protecting a group of persons who are the polit- ical organizers of the assassination. What the French choose to do in this question has nothing to do with us, but it is our business to point out to world public opinion that the at- tempts to cover up the tracks of those who or- ganized the assassination of Doumer is at the same time an attempt to cover up the tracks of the provocateurs who are threatening the peace of the world. All criminal codes provide punishment not only for the murderer, but also for those who insti- gated the murder, those who persuaded the mur- derer that his crime was necessary. For the sake of formality the French investigators asked the murderer whether he had had accomplices, Naturally, he denied having had any. Agents of French Police. Those persons with whom he was in constant contact, his secretary and the editor of the newspaper, “Nabat,” were not put under sus- picion, for they are all agents of the French police. ; However, Gorguloff was not only in connec- tion with the little fish of the French Surete Generale; he was also in connection with the political organizations of the emigration and its organs. We are in possession of the number of the “Vozrozhdenie” of December. 21, °1931,. This newspaper appears inParis and the number.in question contains the following appeal by Gor- guloff:— “The slogan of the Green Nationalists is: Thé welfare of the Fatherland is the highest ideal! All-Russia National Peasants’ Green Party. “On Sunday, December 27, the leader of the Green Nationalists, Paul Gorguloff, will address a meeting in the Cafe Boulevatd dé la Tour- Maubeuge on the subject: “Who aré the Greens? What are they fighting for? The coming Na- tional Russia.’ Entrance free. Party discipline permits neither debates nor protests. The pro- gram of the Green Fascists, which can be ob- tained free of charge, answers all questions, “APPEAL! “Tremendous events are approaching. We, Green Nationalists, sons of the hundred million headed enslaved. Russians and, Cossacks, appeal to you to attend this meeting, to you all who know Russia and feel its terrible sufferings, to all of you, irrespective of opinions and nation- alities, for all of you love and revere your coun- try, it is dearer to you than your life, for with- out a country there is no life! “Let our enemies slander the Green Nation- alists! The Green Nationalists are not Fascists, but they are the enemies of Socialism, for the peasant is a property owner and will never be a Socialist. The Green Nationalists are Rus- sian peasants, Nationalists,.Democrats. “Paul Gorguloff, the leader of the Green Na- tionalists.” ~ Having read this appeal in a newspaper ap- pearing in Paris, the French police ought to have asked themselves what the “Vozrozhdenie” actually represents and whether the murder committed by Gorguloff had anything to do with the circle of political ideas represented by this newspaper: Porat ee) pe French police ought. to know whose semi- official newspaper the “Vozrozhdenie” is. The Police Knew White} French police ought to be aware of the close relations of this newspaper with General Miller, the leader of the “Military Alliance,” with the “Russian Central Association” and with all the 78 Russian organizations whose representatives were called together by the “Vozrozhdenie’” in its editorial offices immediately after the as- assination of Doumer in order to express “the general indignation of the emigration.” The French police know as the whole world knows ‘what sort of organizations they are and why they enjoy unexampled proviliges and un- | limited proteetion on the territory of the French Republic. The French police are aware that these ele- ments take part in the parades of the French Army as “troop units of the Russian Army,” that they maintain their own military academy and their own military schools, which are kept up with the funds provided by the Prench tax- payer, The “Military Alliance.” The French police know better than anyone else that the “Military Alliance” of General Miller, the “Russian Central Association,” the “Supreme Monarchist Council,” the “Trade and Industrial Party,” and a series of other White Guardist organizations belong to this group, whose semi-official organization is the “Voz- rozhdenie” and which propogates war against the Soviet Union. Logical deduction and common sense would have demanded that the French police asked themselves immediately what connection there was between the murder of Doumer and the appeals for terror against foreign statesmen which were distributed almost on the eve of the assassination in a meeting of the “Russian Cen- tral Association” and published in the “Voz- tozhdenie.” If the French police were prepared to abandon their extraordinary blindness for a moment they could read about this meeting in the “Voz- rozhdenie.” In the number of April 26, 1932, containing a report ofthe meeting of the “Rus- sian Central Association” in Paris, the following can be read:— “In all the speeches a new tone in the temper of the emigration could be heard, in all proba- bility caused by the new development which be- gan with the shots fired by Stern in Moscow. These shots are. a warning to all foreigners who sup- port; the. Soviet Union of the respon sibility. they take upon their shoul- ders. Stern is close to us, just as all those who are work- ing outside Russia for the overthrow of the Soviet power are close to us. May his shots be a sign. “Stern's shots have shown us that only a detonation is necessary in order to produce an explosion. It is necessary that this explosion should take place. It can only take place through an unfortunate war for the Bolsheviks. Stern's shots are of historic importance. Now is the time to act, and the emigrants. must be the advance guard.” One of the pillars of the editorial board of the “Vozrozhdenié,” Yablonovski, comes into the open quite frankly in an article in the “Seyod- nia,” which is published in Riga. He supports “the new ideology” with fiery zeal in order that there should be no doubt about the ‘character and the intentions of the White Guardists ap- peal, He writes:— “Stern's shots have made a deep impression. At the same time these shots represent a new departure in the tactics of the Russian terror- ists, and the political significance of this change is very simple: Don’t shoot at Bolshe- vik sparrows. It is more favorable for us, in every respect more favorable, to change our target and to aim at foreigners, “The ‘use’ of this is clear. A shot at a well- known foreigner can cause the Bolsheviks great and serious unpleasantness, and even cause po- litical complications. Such a shot would cause Europe, which is not accustomed to think much about Russian affairs, to think deeply... .” (To Be ‘Continued.) Poincare WITH THE CHINESE RED ARMY (Chinese Workers Correspondence) T= recent victories of the Chinese Red Army in northeastern Kiangsi Province have re- sulted not only in the recapture of Loping and Wanlin, which were lost to the Kuomintang in 1930, but in the additional ‘capture of man ,other small districts. Rer Army activities have lately extended to the borders of Anhwei and @hekiang, and on April 16 Hwapuchen, a large commercial town on the western border of Che- Mang, was taken. The Peac: Preservation Corps, an armed organization of the landlords, was crushed into submission. Although the province: of Hupeh maintains and feeds 15 divisions and 6 brigades of troops for ‘the purpose of “Red suppression,” the Red Armies of the province have repeatedly threat- aa Wuhan during recent months. On March 8, the Third Red Army, led by Ho Lung, defeated a whole brigade of Hsu Yuen-chuen’s troops and part of the 40th Division in a pitched battle that took plpace between Tienmen and Chienkiang. The Chief of Staff of the Kuomintang troops was captured, also 22 howitzers, 26 machine guns and over 1,000 rifles. An interesting light was thrown on the mili- tary situation in the Wphan area by C.D. Dixon, chairman of the Hankow British Chamber of |Commeree, at the annual meeting of that body ‘hela recently. Describing the “Communist-ban- dit” situation, Dixon said: “In February, when the Shanghai conflict was at its height, the Communist threat to Hankow Was, as you all know, a very real one, and it was partly due to the collection by the Chinese Chamber of Commerte of some eight lakhs of dollars, for the payment of arrears to the local garrison, that a disaster was averted.” Further: “To the north-east of Hankow there is a large group, known as the First Red Army, operating between Macheng and the Ping Han Railway. Jarmary of this year this group threatened | and entered into negotiotions with the for tte surrender, ‘The €q troops from Hankow, surrounded the city and disarmed the garrison. Subsequently the Com- munists withdrew to the north anda number of them moved across the Ping Han railway to Yingcheng, which was being attacked at the te by Ho Lung’s horde. “. «. Hankow is in fact on island, upon whose shores the waves of Communism are encroach- ing like an ever rising tide. If Nanking can do nothing to lessen the danger the presence of additional naval protection in the high sea- son will do much to postpone the threat of attacks to the Wuhan cities.” Dixon calls for more extensive intervention by the imperialists against the. revolutionary strug- gles of the Chinese toilers. ‘ When the Third Red Army took Siaoshih in Central Hupeh in the middle of March, it ad- ministered a crushing defeat to two regiments of well-armed Kuomintang troops. The general of the 41st Division (Kuomintang) was wounded in the action and the Red Army captured the brigadier-general of the 144th Brigade. The Shanghai Tmes on Aprl 16 reported “severe fighting between the Communist forces and Goy- ernment troops in the districts of Siaokan, Ting- chen and Yummeng on the Peiping-Hankow Railway. The 48th Division, a crack unit of the Government expeditionary. forces, suffered heavy losses and was compelled to make a general re- treat. The 40th and 41st Divisions have been badly defeated by the Communist forces which frequently destroyed the Hupeh section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway for strategic reasons.” Ho Chien, Kuomintang chairman of the Hu- nan provincial government, permils no news to be sent out from that province concerning the Red Army. Nor does he permit it to be pub- | lished in the newspapers of the province. Neyer- theless, in the Shanghai “Shunpao” of. April 19, tucked away in a corner, was a brief message from the Hunan capital, Changsha, wherein it was reported that “the Yoochow River is again blocked by the 19th Division engaged in sup- ficial statement issued by the* headquarters of the 4th Route Army, the Kuomintang troops in Hunan have not received a single penny of their wages for the past 13 months. However, Ho Chien is reported to have de- cided on a “Five-Year Air Force Plan” for his province, which is to have 160 fighting planes and four anti-aircraft guns by the end of that period, On the Honan-Anhwei borders, Red troops, following the occupation of Hsinagchen, Kwang- shu, Wangchuen and Koochi in mid-February, are now advancing in the direction of Ching- yangkwan to the east of the Peiping-Hankow Railway. The Red Armies of Kiangsu, Shensi and Kansu have been ‘recently organized. Each of these armies consists of several hundred men with rifles. The Red Army of Kiangsu has occupied a small district east of Haichow, while the Shen- si and Kansu Red Armies have succeeded in dis- arming 100 Kuomintang troops on the frontier of the two provinces, In the despehate efforts to maintain its po- sition as a lackey of foreign imperialism, the Kuomintang has begun a new drive against the Chinese Soviet districts and against the Chinese Soviet districts and against the Chinese Red Armies. Ho Ying-ching, War Minister in the Nanking government, who refused to take up arms against the Japanese invaders, has appointed commander-in-chief of the “Red Sup- pression forces in Kwangtung, Kiangsi and Fu- kien provinces. On April 30 he’ sailed for Kan- changeto personally direct ihe newest “Red _Sup- pression” campaign. The. artillery units and airplane squadrons which Chiang Kal-shek would! no! ssnd to aid ‘in the defense of Shanghai against the Japancse imperialist invaders are now being sent into the heart of Central China for war against the Chi- nese masses. The Nanking government has guar- anteed a monthly sum of $500,000 to defray the cost of the “Red suppression” campaign in the Yangtze regions. This is to be supplemented S- “We have repeatedly assured the Soviet as to the true motive of our advance, which does not extend beyond the protection and property,” Admiral Saito, head of the military dictatorship in Japan. of Japanese life DRAFT RESOLUTION FOR THE NEW YORK DISTRICT CONVENTION The following is the second and final in- stallment of a digest of the draft resolution of the New York District Committee for the District Convention, ROVE Fea The War Danger 'HE danger pt war against the Soviet Union rows every day. It is necessary not only to bring forward the situation in a propaganda and agitational form, comparing the develop- ments of building socialism in the Soviet Union on the basis of the Five-Year Plan with con- ditions in the United States, but also to pro- | ceed to action in order to establish the Party | and the revolutionary unions in the shops as a powerful factor in postponing war. It is neces- sary to organize in the shops and on the docks for the stepping of production and shipment of war supplies. It is also necessary to carry on this work among the unemployed, young and women workers, and particularly the Negro and Latin-American workers, who are powerful anti- imperialist forces, if lined up under revolution- ary leadership. ‘The Election Campaign is not a separate cam- paign of the Party, but is the unifier of all the campaigns of the Party. The center of this campaign must be the shops, and the campaign must be linked up with every struggle of the Party. We mustn’t wait for struggles, but organ- ize struggles, so that the Election Campaign be- comes a real election struggle on the basis of the demands of the workers for unemployment. relief and insurance, against wage-cuts, for Ne- gro rights, etc. The District Resolution calls upon the entire Party membership to make a serious study of the situation in the units, sections and dis- trict, not meyely to engage in self-criticism, but to make concrete suggestions for the change of work and for a decisive change in our practices, In order that there may be a complete re- organization of the unit buros, section com- mittees and district committee, the District Re- solution proposes that there shall be a thorough discussion of every candidate for membership in the Unit Buro, Section Committee and Dis- trict Committee. Likewise, there shall be a thorough discussion of the delegates to the Sec- tion conferences and District Convention. Only in this way, will the Unit Buros, Section and | District Committees be composed of workers | from the shop and doing mass work, and, thus give an organizational guarantee that the Party will get out of the grooye in which it is at the present time. Only thus will we roc the Party in the shops and among the unemployed, win over. the Ne- gro and young workers. Only thus, -will be be able to rally the masses against imperialist war, for the defense of the Soviet Union and the Chinese people. Only thus will the elec- tion campaign be a 1eal Communist campaign, This is the tremendous task before the district aloe June Issue of | ; “The Communist” 1, The Imperialist Offens've and the Fourteenth "enum of the Central Committee. 2 The Struggle for the Majorily of the Working | Class and Our Mass Work. By O. Kuusinen 3. ‘Some Elementary Phases of the Work In the Reformist Trade Unions, By Wm. Z. Foster.. 4. Fascism, Social Democracy and Communism. By W. Knorin. 5. Lessons of Two Recent Strikes. In the: Light, of the E.C.C.1. Resolution on “Lessons of Strike Struggles In U.S.A.” By Jack Stachel. 6 The War Offensive—Tightening the Capital- ist Dictatorship In the United States. By Bill Dunn>. 7. The Second Five-Year Plan. By Moivsaye 3. ional Problem. By J. | Stalin, Lenin Ov Literature. by the -“Village Clearance Association” which is led and dominated by the militarists of Hupeh, This body decided on April 19 to impose a salt surtax of $3 per picul and to collect not less | from Wyoming and Utah, end from various trade | police on the che the Giver, together ge $3,000,000 from the wealthy in the province ‘to swell the funds for “Red suppression.” at the present time, In order to provide guarantees that the re- solution of the District will be realized, the fol- lowing organizational steps shall be taken: 1, The District shall concentrate on the waterfront in Sections 1 and 7 and on Upper | Harlem, and ‘shall assign to the sections proper forces to concentrate on shops of basic war in- | dustries. . a) It shall concentrate on building shop nuclei, strengthening the existing nuclei and build- ing shop organization. It shall take steps immediately to train the comrades working in war industries. It shall carry on an energetic drive for the TUUC recruiting campaign. It shall make the: building of the Unem- ployed Council a central task of the Dis- trict and sections. To this end, the fur- ther concretizing of the last TUUL Na- tional Board meeting resolution must be made at once, It shall make preparations for the coming | strikes in shoe, needle and longshore. 2. The District shall see to it that in the TUUC and revolutionary unions demands for the Negro workers and struggle around these | demands are initiated. 3. The District shall initiate a broad cam- paign among the Latin-American masses in the District who are militant and anti-imperialist forces. 4. The District shall find a method. of con- necting up the shop nuclei, street units, sec- tions and the unions of the respective indus- tries. 5. The District shall check up on the as- signments for mass organizations and add to or withdraw such Party members as are not needed in the mass organizations. 8) Leading comrades of the mass organiza- tions shall be connected with the shop nuclei or the units concentrating upon these shops. 6. The District must assume the responsibil- | ity of pulling the YCL out of its isolation by a) Having close contact in the District, Sec- tions and Units. Assigning more instructors. Training YCL members for mass work and conducting systematic educational work. Seeing that YCL members ar ssigned for factory and unemployed work, and check- ing up on their work, e). Intensifying the ant: e & G b c) a ‘ar and anti-militar- ist work. 7. The District shall take the organizational steps necessary in the war situation and also Intensifying its anti-militarist work in con- junction with the YCL. 8. The District Negro and Women’s depart- ments shall be abolished, the work on these two fields becoming the direct responsibility of the District Committee, a) The same shall be done in the Sections. 9. The District shall select a few street units in important sections concentrating on a shop or area and assign proper forces to work with these units, in order to gain experience in chang= ing the inner life of the units by a) Teaching the unit buro members how to conduct the work of the unit. b) See that the proper assignments are made and checked up. c) Drawing to the front and promoting pro-_ mising workers and giving them training: d) Discussing the campaigns of the Party on the basis of the work of the Unit. e) Working with the unit at the point of con- centration. ¢ 8 10. There shall be a discussion of shop nucle- us and of a selected street Unit at the meeting of the District Buro every two weeks. 11. The District shall work out a system of cutting down the number of inner meetings, so that the members are released for mass work, 12. Immediately after the District Committee meeting, the Sections shall make a searching review of their work in the light of the reso- lutions 2) They shall not only engage in Self-criti- cism, but work out concretely how to ap- ply the Central and District Committee re- solutions to the work of the Section, In this they must be assisted by the District Committee. 13. The District buro shall assign comrades leading in mass work, particularly shop workers, to discuss their problems in the Party press and the District bulletin to be issued in the pre- convention period. The Election campaign must be taken into the shops, unions, mass organizations, neighborhoods, Tt must not be an agitational campaign, but be closely related to all the struggles, which in | view of the deepening crisis and the war situ- ation, must be intensified manifold On our abiliiy to bring the Election campaign into all struggles will depend the success ote the cam- paign. How We Sent Our Delegation to Chicago “By RAE GREEN GX MONDAY, “May 23rd, 18 celegaies left Den- ver for the National Nominating Convestior | Of the Communist Party et Chicago, Tl. They came from the striking beet fields of Colorado, unions in Denver proper. Most of them were crowded into an open truck, and protected only by the blankets which were loaned by sym- pathizers, . Four days later we received a letter, which read, in part:‘‘Hello, Comrades, Well, we are getting there. Drove’ continuously since left. ‘Pueblo (a place where they were to pick up two steel workers—R. G.). Everybody in good spirits, but very tired; but all is well. From everybody in the delegation, (Signed) Carl Mickelson.” ec Ayuarters, tone of Ur. ios Tides in the District, taken under arresi, tiie deleg (75% non-party) did not budge from the truck, but sank revolutionary songs for about an hour, until the police captain decided that it was not wise to try to keep the delegation from going off, and released the arrested.comrades, The truck ther went on its way, All the delegates were elected at United Front Wor! a where two beet sirikers women) were elected as delegates, the other worcy) present pledged to teke care of ‘Woman delegafc’s three children. Workers and student: present es visitors then contril i high s a dollar apiece to help provide for children while their mother was gone to convention. In spite of terror, denial uf halls, and absolutely no money in entire commit conferences were held and delegates elected. From all these conferences came reports worker after worker rose and expressed his ine dignation and disgust with the capitalist parties and determination to support the Communist Perty in the coming elections. e woman Gelesate (formerly member of the Repub- Hern F. elaeidd os patent to Chicago at ti tong one, -evprosced the spirit) of Aco ciy ty 3 bei sho-satd: “As a N70 4 Communist Party; Iam il § Dy DCE ns | protd to boa memizst of the only Party which — stards and fights for the rights of all people.” ‘same desire, as they went off to the tion—to learn something about the so i "s Election Conferences held thruout the — At the conference in Greeley, Colo, © (one. man and one - The Negro’ : Everyone of them was fired with the a STC III — SE TE